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JUSTIN TRUDEAU

Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 22, 2022
Canada bans new handgun sales in latest gun control action
Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 28, 2022
Trudeau spars with farmers on climate plan, risking grain output
The tension comes as efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions related to energy are lagging, so policymakers are increasingly looking to other sectors, including agriculture.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 18, 2022
Pandemic fatigue a challenge for Canada's Trudeau amid protests
A survey from last week said a third of Canadians think now is the time to lift all restrictions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 16, 2022
Behind the fractious collaboration steering the Canada trucker protests
The protesters' disciplined and highly coordinated occupation has been orchestrated by a team of self-appointed leaders, some with military and right-wing organizing backgrounds.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 15, 2022
Canada PM Trudeau enlists banks to help stop protests in emergency move
In a bid to stop the protests, the Canadian prime minister invoked rarely used emergency powers to choke off the flow of money to demonstrators.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 8, 2022
Canada PM Trudeau blasts protest with key bridge shut
The Ambassador Bridge, the most important land crossing for goods between Canada and the U.S., was shut down in both directions late Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 30, 2022
Trucker vaccine rule brings polarizing protest to Canada’s capital
A convoy of truckers and others who oppose vaccine mandates has rolled into Ottawa for a weekend of rowdy protests.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal / ANALYSIS
Sep 26, 2021
U.S. move to end Huawei saga should help China ties — but at a cost
The deal comes two weeks after Biden called Xi in frustration over Beijing's move to link progress on climate change with other demands, including Meng's release.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 26, 2021
China welcomes Huawei executive home as Trudeau hugs Canadians freed by Beijing
Meng Wanzhou arrived in China on Saturday, ending her near three-year U.S. extradition fight, the same day two Canadians detained by Beijing for more than 1,000 days returned home.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2021
Justin Trudeau's longevity as Canadian leader unclear after bid for majority fails
Insiders said Trudeau and his inner circle had failed to realize the people they would need to run the campaign were exhausted after 15 months fighting COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2021
Canada's Trudeau wins historic third term but falls short of majority
The projected result would leave Trudeau in power to pursue the most left-leaning agenda the country has seen in at least a generation.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2021
Trudeau’s populist pose could hurt Canada’s economy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's populist panderings are being compared to Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, and if acted upon, could hurt the economy.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 2, 2021
Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous people
The discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools has sparked a reckoning with the country's colonial past.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 23, 2021
Xinjiang genocide vote pressures Trudeau to take harder line on China
The nonbinding declaration from lawmakers represents a clear signal that they want Trudeau to maintain pressure on Beijing over human rights.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 23, 2020
Trudeau shuts out China again by rejecting Arctic gold deal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government rejected a plan by China’s Shandong Gold Mining Co. to acquire a gold miner that operates in the Canadian Arctic, potentially inflaming a diplomatic feud.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 11, 2020
A shot at hostage diplomacy with China backfires in Canada
The letter circulated by Huawei Technologies Co. was blunt. Canada was becoming dangerously entangled in the diplomatic feud between Washington and Beijing, it said, and there was only one answer: for Justin Trudeau’s government to free the state-championed tech giant’s chief financial officer and...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 9, 2020
576 days in a Chinese cell: Michael Kovrig's resolve pushed to its limits
In one of Michael Kovrig’s letters, the former Canadian diplomat describes life in a Chinese prison as a "gray, grinding monotony.” Confined to a windowless concrete cell, ten feet square, his incarceration has also been, at times, deeply traumatic.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 9, 2020
Canada handled the coronavirus outbreak better than U.S., Trudeau says
Canada handled the novel coronavirus outbreak better than many of its allies, including the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, in a rare public comment on the faltering U.S. effort.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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